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Under a warm Oahu sun, with the tranquil, teal waters of Pearl Harbor behind them, former enemies came together Tuesday to acknowledge the tremendous loss caused by the Japanese attack on U.S. military installations in Hawaii 75 years ago. Japanese Prime ... ( read original story ...)

Putting 75 years of resentment behind them, the leaders of the United States and Japan have come together for a historic pilgrimage to Pearl Harbor, where a devastating surprise attack sent the U.S. marching into the Second World War. Ahead of a visit to ... ( read original story ...)

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Bahrain’s Shitaye Eshete will be looking to break up the Japanese dominance of the Osaka Women’s Marathon when she competes at the IAAF Silver Label Road Race on January 29. The 26-year-old may not have the fastest PB of the field, but Eshete’s ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid wreaths at various cemeteries and memorials Monday ahead of a visit to the site of the 1941 bombing that plunged the United States into the Second World War. Abe landed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and then ... ( read original story ...)

Media captionJapanese PM Shinzo Abe and director of the National Memorial of the Pacific, James Horton Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has visited several memorials in Hawaii, ahead of a visit to Pearl Harbor, the US naval base attacked by the Japanese in 1941. ( read original story ...)

Mr. Abe announced this month that he would visit Pearl Harbor. Japan’s Foreign Ministry, in news briefings, indicated at the time that he would be the first sitting Japanese prime minister to visit Pearl Harbor, the site of the surprise attack on a ... ( read original story ...)

KOBE – A red brick warehouse in Osaka that is nearly a century old has become a mecca for enthusiasts of vintage and classic cars in Japan, enabling visitors to get up close to pieces of motoring history. Glion Museum in the port of Osaka displays more ... ( read original story ...)

The Hongkongers were among 6,000 travellers affected as 96cm of snow fell in Japan’s Hokkaido region at the weekend, shutting down New Chitose Airport, which serves the city of Sapporo. A backlog of flights left airlines scrambling to organise extra ... ( read original story ...)

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* Says it will sell mansion in Yokohama in April 1 to Sep. 30 Source text in Japanese: goo.gl/bGKfAP Further company coverage: (Beijing Headline News) Next In Financials ( read original story ...)

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told a regular news conference that the two sides have agreed on how to define what constitutes a "civilian contractor" at an American base and hope to sign the agreement "during President Barack Obama's term." ( read original story ...)

Tokyo shares edged down Monday morning as overseas investors stayed away from the market for the Christmas holidays. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average shed 17.24 points, or 0.09 percent, from Thursday to 19,410.43. The Tokyo market was closed Friday for a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks opened flat on Monday in quiet holiday trading following a three-day weekend, as investors cashed in on recent rallies. Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index, which closed on Friday for a national holiday, fell 0.09 percent, or 16.89 ... ( read original story ...)

broker at Okasan Securities in Tokyo. Japan's banking sector remained under selling pressure on negative news in the sector from overseas. Italy on Friday approved a state-funded rescue of the world's oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS), while ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will visit Pearl Harbor with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, wasn't even born when Japan's former leader Shigeru Yoshida went there just six years after the country's World War II surrender, by himself ... ( read original story ...)